typescript Memes

Coding With Eslint

Coding With Eslint
You declare one class for the first time in your life, feeling proud of yourself, and ESLint immediately comes at you with the fury of a thousand linters. "Declared but never used" it screams, as if you weren't planning to use it in literally the next line. But no, ESLint has already judged you, found you wanting, and sentenced you to squiggly red underlines. It's like having a backseat driver who starts yelling before you even put the car in drive.

Dr Blame The Dev

Dr Blame The Dev
Someone wrote a manifesto about how using C, C++, Python, or vanilla JavaScript in production is basically corporate negligence, advocating for Rust, Go, and TypeScript instead. The reply? "Nonsense. If your code has reached the point of unmaintainable complexity, then blame the author, not the language." Classic developer blame game. The first person is basically saying "your tools are bad and you should feel bad," while the second person fires back with "skill issue, not language issue." Both are technically correct, which makes this argument eternal. The reality? Yeah, modern languages with better type systems and memory safety do prevent entire classes of bugs. But also yeah, a terrible developer can write unmaintainable garbage in any language, including Rust. You can't memory-safety your way out of 10,000-line functions and zero documentation. The real takeaway: if you're shipping production code in 2025 without considering memory safety and type guarantees, you're making a choice. Just make sure it's an informed one, not a "we've always done it this way" one.

If You Know Yuo Know

If You Know Yuo Know
Oh honey, the PTSD is REAL with this one. Before 2022, writing typos in your codebase was basically a death sentence—one wrong character and your entire application would explode into a fiery mess of runtime errors at 3 AM. But then TypeScript became the industry standard and suddenly everyone's living their best life with autocomplete, intellisense, and compile-time error checking catching every single embarrassing typo before it reaches production. Now you can confidently misspell variable names knowing your IDE will passive-aggressively underline them in red before you even hit save. The glow-up from stressed-out nightmare fuel to smug, carefree developer is CHEF'S KISS. Welcome to the future where your typos get bullied by a compiler instead of your users.

Devin Got Fired

Devin Got Fired
Someone named Devin on the team got fired, and the devs decided to immortalize the moment by removing the @ts-expect-error comment that was basically saying "yeah TypeScript will yell at you here, but trust me bro, it works." The deleted comment is pure gold though: "DEVIN, STOP REMOVING THIS LINE YOU DUMBASS, YES TYPESCRIPT DOES THROW AN ERROR IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT, NO THIS IS NOT 'UNUSED', AND YES YOU HAVE BROKEN OUR CI PIPELINE EVERY TIME YOU DO IT" You can almost feel the rage of whoever wrote that after Devin broke the build for the third time in a week. Poor Devin probably thought they were being helpful by "cleaning up unused code" without understanding what @ts-expect-error actually does. Now that Devin's gone, the comment can finally be removed... because there's no one left to keep removing it. RIP to the CI pipeline's most frequent visitor.

Anime Gender Type Theory

Anime Gender Type Theory
Someone took their TypeScript generics knowledge and applied it to the most important problem in computer science: categorizing anime characters by gender presentation. Because nothing says "I understand covariance and contravariance" quite like explaining why that cute anime character might be a trap. The progression is beautiful: simple generic Girl, then a Variant that could be Boy OR Girl (Schrödinger's waifu), then a Boy that implements the IGirl interface (the classic "looks like a girl, sounds like a girl, but surprise"), and finally void—because some things transcend mortal understanding. The BitCast at the end is the cherry on top: when type safety fails you, just reinterpret those bits and pray. Your type system can't save you now.

Is It Really Worth It

Is It Really Worth It
So you finally learned JavaScript after months of callback hell and promise chains. Congratulations. Now someone's gonna tell you that you should've learned TypeScript from the start because "type safety" and "better refactoring." The door you just squeezed through? Yeah, it's basically a trash compactor now, and TypeScript is sitting pretty on the other side like it owns the place. The real kicker is that TypeScript is just JavaScript with extra steps and angle brackets. You could've saved yourself the trauma and gone straight there, but no, you had to learn what undefined is not a function means at runtime like some kind of caveman.

Concurrently, Microsoft...

Concurrently, Microsoft...
JavaScript and Java are having a nice, civilized conversation while Microsoft casually ignores them to flirt with TypeScript and C#. The absolute AUDACITY! Like watching your friend ditch you mid-sentence to talk to their new besties. Microsoft really said "sorry kids, I've moved on to greener pastures" and left the OG languages on read. The irony? Microsoft literally OWNS TypeScript (they created it) and has been pushing C# for decades. They're not even trying to hide their favoritism anymore. It's giving "sorry I can't hear you over the sound of my superior type systems" energy.

Same Same But Different

Same Same But Different
OMG the JavaScript family portrait we never asked for but DESPERATELY needed! 😂 JavaScript: The innocent baby who has NO IDEA what chaos it's about to unleash on the world. Just sitting there like "undefined is not a function? Never heard of her!" TypeScript: The SAME CHILD but with sunglasses because it thinks it's SO COOL with its static typing. "Look at me, I can catch errors at compile time!" WHATEVER, show-off. React JS: JavaScript wearing a beanie because it went to art school and now won't shut up about "components" and "virtual DOM." We get it, you're SPECIAL. Next JS: The emo sibling with the side-swept bangs who thinks it's revolutionary for adding server-side rendering. Honey, Apache was doing that in the 90s!

Outsourcing Your TypeScript Migration To The Real Senior Engineer

Outsourcing Your TypeScript Migration To The Real Senior Engineer
Delegating the TypeScript migration to AI is the modern equivalent of tossing your problems over the wall to the junior dev. Nothing says "I've reached peak seniority" like asking Claude to convert your janky JavaScript codebase while you kick back and pretend you're "architecting." The best part? That "make no mistakes" command—as if AI doesn't hallucinate semicolons like I hallucinate deadlines. Next week's ticket: "Fix all the weird union types Claude created that somehow accept both strings and refrigerators."

Do Not Do Type Script Kids

Do Not Do Type Script Kids
Content Typescript altering my mind after i wrote 30 lines in it so i can't write non-static languages anymore

There Is No Escape

There Is No Escape
Oh. My. GOD. Even when you flee to TypeScript to escape JavaScript's chaos, the React error demons STILL find you! 😱 That unholy TypeScript error is basically screaming "NICE TRY, SWEETIE, BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM UNDEFINED PROPERTIES!" It's like upgrading from a haunted house to a haunted mansion - same ghosts, fancier floors! The bus to sanity has left the station, and both JS and TS are sitting there with that existential dread look wondering why they ever chose web development in the first place. THERE. IS. NO. ESCAPE.

Life Is Too Short For Type Gymnastics

Life Is Too Short For Type Gymnastics
GASP! The absolute AUDACITY of someone suggesting JavaScript users are just lazy TypeScript avoiders! 💅 The eternal holy war between "just let me write my code without 47 type declarations" and "excuse me sir, your variable might be a string OR a number and I simply cannot function without knowing which!" The JavaScript rebels living on the edge while TypeScript devotees clutch their strongly-typed pearls in horror. Meanwhile, that smug reply with the smiley face is just *chef's kiss* perfection - like proudly admitting you eat cereal with a fork because spoons are too much work!